Photo: The Granger Collection / TT (c. 1950)
Sample of authors
Derleth, August
American author, poet, editor and publisher, who wrote his first published novel Bat’s Belfry when he was 15 years old. When he died, he had written more than 150 books in a row of literary genres, and he left behind him a large number of unpublished manuscripts. His publisher’s, Arkham House, are rather legendary when it comes to primarily fantasy and horror literature, and he was a respected lec...
Literary figures
Jill Francis
Gender: Female
The young journalist, Jill Francis, leaves London after breaking up from a relationship with a married man. She gets a job in the fictive town of Lydmouth, where she investigates and writes about a row of crimes. She also meets police detective Richard Thornhill, and the two – reluctantly – start an affair even though he is a married father of two. Andrew Taylor has written the books about the cou...